Following the preliminary results of the first round of the presidential election of 20 November published Monday night https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-19370-haiti-flash-preliminary-results-1st-round-elections-20-november-2016.html the main 3 losing candidates challenged as of Tuesday the victory of Jovenel Moïse of the "Parti Haïtien Tèt Kale" (PHTK) who won the majority in the first round, with 595,430 votes (55.67% of the votes).

Jude Célestin candidate for the presidency under the banner of the "Alternative League for the Progress and the Haitian Emancipation" (LAPEH) arrived 2nd with 208,837 votes (19.52% of the votes), rejects the results of the presidential and declared that he will go into the legal battle to get the truth out. Me André Michel the lawyer of LAPEH, announces of challenges and mobilization against "the electoral coup" by Jovenel Moïse [...] We reject the results of the votes with a backhand."

Moïse Jean-Charles candidate for the presidency under the banner of "Pitit Dessalines", arrives 3rd with 118,142 votes (11.04% of the votes), which affirms that no candidate can win the presidential election in the 1st turn according to his calculations realized from the Copies of PV that he holds, rejects the results of the presidential election. He announced that he would contest without violence the results of the elections of November 20 using all the legal means to bring the CEP to respect the popular vote.

Maryse Narcisse presidential candidate under the banner "Fanmi Lavalas" arrives 4th with 96,121 votes (8.99% of votes) which rejects with a backhand the election of a candidate from the first round, affirms that the results of the Presidential election are "an electoral coup" against which his party had warned since the beginning of the Tabulation. She announces that Famni Lavalas will contest and calls on citizens to remain mobilized to demand respect for the verdict of the ballot boxes.

Exception among the main losers, Jean Henri Céant presidential candidate under the banner "Renmen Ayiti" arrived 5th on Tuesday declared on a radio of the capital that he had phoned Jovenel Moïse to congratulate him of his victory "I am not interested in the candidacy for the presidency".

Edmonde Supplice Bauzile, candidate to the presidency under the banner of the party "fusion of the Haitian Social-Democrats" (FUSION), arrived 6th also congratulated Jovenel Moïse and affirmed not wanting to contest this result.

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https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-19370-haiti-flash-preliminary-results-1st-round-elections-20-november-2016.html

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